To celebrate 2 years of Balatro, creator LocalThunk reflected on dropping out of an engineering program to make games: 'Even if I could warn myself I’m not sure what I could have said to prepare for the insanity'

On Balatro's two-year anniversary, creator LocalThunk published a reflective blog post about dropping out of an engineering program to pursue programming and game development. He described his early passion for coding despite being a poor student, and noted that even now he couldn't have prepared himself for the game's massive success.

Appeared in 2026-02-23.